Theodoros Karantanos MD, PhD

Dr. Karantanos graduated from the School of Health Sciences at the University of Athens, Greece, and received a Ph.D. in cancer biology. As a post-doctoral research fellow at MD Anderson Cancer Center/University of Texas, he studied signal transduction in cancer and developed expertise in mouse modeling and targeted therapies. He completed his internal medicine residency and Chief residency training at Boston University and his medical oncology fellowship training at Johns Hopkins. His clinical research focused on sex-related differences in the genomic profile and outcomes of MPN and MDS/MPN patients. As a research fellow he studied malignant hematopoiesis and his work led to the identification of CCRL2, as an inducer of MDS/sAML cells growth and a mediator of azacitidine resistance.